#### Updates to existing commands
* Printing and output
  * Import a numeric ordering sorting library and use it in the sorting printer. ([#40746](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40746), [@matthyx](https://github.com/matthyx))

* `kubectl patch` now supports `--dry-run`. ([#60675](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60675), [@timoreimann](https://github.com/timoreimann))
* fix sorting taints in case the sorting keys are equal ([#61255](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61255), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))

### CLI Improvements
- The kubectl's api-resource command now has a `--sort-by` flag to sort resources by name or kind. ([#81971](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81971), [@laddng](https://github.com/laddng))

- `kubectl get` no longer exits before printing all of its results if an error is found ([#70311](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70311), [@juanvallejo](https://github.com/juanvallejo))
- Fixed a runtime error occurring when sorting the output of `kubectl get` with empty results ([#70740](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70740), [@mfpierre](https://github.com/mfpierre))

- Fixed bug where kubectl top pod output is not sorted when --sort-by and --containers flags are used together ([#93692](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93692), [@brianpursley](https://github.com/brianpursley)) [SIG CLI]

- Prevent logging of docker config contents if file is malformed ([#95347](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95347), [@sfowl](https://github.com/sfowl)) [SIG Auth and Node]

### Bug or Regression

- Do not fail sorting empty elements. ([#94666](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94666), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh)) [SIG CLI]

*   kubectl `top node` now sorts by name and `top pod` sorts by namespace. Fixed a bug where results were inconsistently sorted. ([#53560](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53560),[ @dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))

- Multi-line annotations injected via downward API files will no longer be sorted, scrambling their information. ([#65992](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65992), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Two changes to the `/debug/api_priority_and_fairness/dump_priority_levels` endpoint of API Priority and Fairness: added total number of dispatched, timed-out, rejected and cancelled requests; output now sorted by `PriorityLevelName`. ([#112393](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112393), [@borgerli](https://github.com/borgerli))
- Unlocked the `CSIMigrationvSphere` feature gate.

- Kubeadm: when applying the overrides provided by the user using "extraArgs", do not sort the resulted list of arguments alpha-numerically. Instead, only sort the list of default arguments and keep the list of overrides unsorted. This allows finer control for flags which have an order that matters, such as, "--service-account-issuer" for kube-apiserver. ([#135850](https...